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When federal agencies evaluate FOIA software, the product demonstrations tend to look similar on the surface. Request tracking, document review, redaction tools, compliance dashboards. Most platforms claim to cover the bases. What those demos often obscur

There's a difference between software designed for FOIA officers and software designed by them. Federal FOIA software built without deep process knowledge may check every technical box on a procurement checklist and still create more friction than it elim

Security is one of the first things federal agencies ask about when evaluating FOIA software, and rightly so. FOIA systems handle sensitive requester information, law enforcement records, personally identifiable information, and documents that carry signi

Federal FOIA offices are in trouble. Request volumes are climbing at record rates, experienced staff are leaving, and the tools many agencies depend on were never designed for the pressures of 2026. For FOIA directors watching their backlogs balloon, the

A breakthrough for specialized open-source tools in the AI ecosystem Text similarity measurements comparing ground truth to various processing methods At Skyward, we've been tackling one of the most persistent challenges in the RAG ecosystem: transforming

In a rapidly evolving technological landscape, the federal government stands at a critical juncture. The recent response from Anthropic to the Office of Science and Technology Policy's Request for Information (RFI) on AI Action Plan development highlights

Working at the forefront of AI solutions for government applications, we'reconstantly pushing the boundaries of what's possible with language models. But to truly understand how well these models perform, we need reliable ways to evaluate them. This led u

Mark Your Calendar & Budget Planning Information ASAP 19th Annual National Training Conference (2027) ASAP has begun its venue search in the Washington, D.C. area for the 19th Annual National Training Conference (NTC). Ou